JAMMU:The Pakistan army raised a white flag at the Line of Control (LoC) to retrieve the bodies of two of its soldiers killed recently by the Indian Army in retaliatory fire at the Hajipir sector of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

PUNE: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday the response that his 'Mahajanadesh Yatra' got indicated that the BJP would have "unprecedented" victory in the upcoming state Assembly polls.

WASHINGTON:A group of American lawmakers have expressed “grave concern” over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and urged the US ambassadors in New Delhi and Islamabad to “de-escalate tensions” between India and Pakistan.

NEW DELHI:The Enforcement Directorate today raided multiple locations in the country linked to IRS officer Neeraj Singh, a commissioner in the Income Tax Department, in connection PMLA and associated disproportionate assets cases.

KOLKATA:Plenty of drama unfolded in Kolkata today as the former Kolkata city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, a blue-eyed boy of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, resorted to playing hide and seek with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) fearing arrest by the agency, which has been directed by the Supreme Court to probe the multi-crore rupees Saradha chit fund scam.

CHANDIGARH:The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) will develop new standards and emission control norms for the textile industry to cater to the emerging ecological challenges and strengthen environmental compliance.

CHANDIGARH:Miffed at finding a poor turnout of officers and men at a routine PT parade during a visit to a field unit, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) chief has taken the force’s establishments to task over their laxity towards maintaining fitness standards.

NEW DELHI:The government is working on a plan to divest the Army of operational control over India’s oldest paramilitary force Assam Rifles, responsible for guarding Myanmar border, and is likely to merge it with ITBP, which guards borders along China.

CHANDIGARH:After the leftists, now even the right wing Hindu organisations of Punjab have started supporting the call for sending exotic cattle breeds to abattoirs to check the rising stray cattle menace.

JAMMU:The clampdown on communication that has severed the connection between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the world and has become an issue of human rights violations is likely to be lifted on October 31.

NEW DELHI: Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale will be on a two-day visit to Iran beginning Sunday during which he will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart Syed Abbas Araghchi on key bilateral and regional issues.

MUMBAI: A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to extract money from the staff posted at Matoshree, the Bandra residence of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, for a parcel he falsely claimed was ordered by Aaditya Thackeray.

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday alleged that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was “clueless” in dealing with the economic slowdown and termed the latest steps announced by her to boost the economy “cosmetic” and “piecemeal”.

NEW DELHI: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday pitched for Hindi as a common language for the country, reigniting the debate on the issue as southern parties said they would oppose any attempt to “impose” the language.

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced an over Rs 70,000 crore package for the export and real estate sectors, including setting up of a stressed asset fund, as the government continued with firefighting measures to pull the economy out of a six-year low growth rate.

AMARAVATI: Five members of a family were killed and another injured as a car in which they were travelling caught fire after it overturned in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district on Saturday, police said.

We have wreaked a near-irreversible damage to our planet. The air we breathe in is turning precariously poisonous, even as the agricultural cycles are getting disrupted due to changing global temperatures. India, too, has been reeling under its worst water crisis.

NEEDED: Sacred Games-2 may have left many of its diehard fans not too happy with the climax, but audience, especially in North India, must be tickled pink at the depiction of its lead protagonist, a turbaned Sikh hero being played by Saif Ali Khan.